Nikhil Parekh

a complete 100 floors

Scores of squeals inundated the atmosphere; clustersof people hugged each other close in utterpandemonium, A billion beads of sweat trickled down petrifiedcheeks; as children took deep breaths in terrifiedexhilaration, A heap of vegetables and fresh fruit lay completelysquashed; housewives wailed in discordant unison aboutthe scornful creases to their immaculate clothes, Torn bits of heavily scented paper stuck to theceiling; fluttering about incessantly with the gallantwind that infiltrated in through the doors, Infinite bundles of hair stood up in untamedindignation; repugnantly refusing to sit down evenafter blissful calm had descended, Boundless plumes of black smoke arose in the vicinity; with the disastrously dry coughing of the agedbecoming all the more apparent as the agonizingminutes crept by, The tiny floor seemed to be in a complete disarray; with a pool of tears blended with faint bloodportraying a profoundly ghastly appearance, The tales of remorse and dismay seemed to be gainingimpetus; as the people inside felt escalated to thezenith of feverish excitement, The lights flickered and faltered badly; withperennial darkness seeming to be a better option whencompared to the continuously batting beams of flimsybulb rays, A battalion of unruly mosquitoes relished the splendidopportunity; perched and sucking blood with gayabandon from innocuously rubicund skin, The hair on everyone's scalp seemed to protrude inspiffy animosity; as if freshly coming out from theheart of a swashbuckling war film, All sense of judiciousness and prudent discerning; hadnow been replaced by unconquerable waves of morbidterror, All food in the stomach had died a gruesome death; themost inconspicuous of desire to consume liquidincorrigibly refrained to arise again, An innumerable fleet of pedestrians had gathered atthe dismal scenario; expressing their sanctimonioussympathy; trying to mollify frazzled nerves with theirarmory of spurious smiles, The entire network of bones in the body felt as ifterribly jolted; the intricate cartilage inside feltas if it needed rebirth, The string of useless thoughts which once bothered andcircumvented the mind all night and day; now seemed tobe single focussed on feasible ways of escape, The color of skin had metamorphosed to ashen white; the robust river of red blood had stopped flowinghours ago, The hearts of those incarcerated inside; palpitatedmore violently than when they had just taken birth, And you'd be astoundingly surprised at knowing thecause of this holocaust; the disaster which hadrendered groups of impeccable humans grappling fortheir lives in the middle of brilliant daylight; hadfomented more perspiration on the body than their wasscarlet blood and bone, As a matter of fact it was just a slim wire of soiledrubber which had snapped; engendering themagnificently colossal lift to plummet like streaks ofwhite lightening towards the ground, Bounce with a thunderously deafening thud on itscushioned mountain of soft and spongy springs; aftertraversing down a complete 100 floors of the tallbuilding.